front yard

noun

plural front yards

: an area in front of a house

We planted some bushes in the front yard.

Soon, our front yard was a safe haven for our scampering four-year-old, our porch a rustic idyll, our lawn a green and pleasant sward fit for Bambi to gambol on. Paradise.

—Michael Walsh

Examples of front yard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Less than three miles away from the police parking lot, a landscape crew of five Latinos was working in a front yard, building an intricate walkway from multi-shaped pavers. —Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025

Officials said deputies found one person suffering from gunshot wounds in a house’s front yard just before 1 a.m. in the 2100 block of Mendocino Drive, a residential neighborhood. —Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 16 June 2025

While one of her friends cut the paintings down, Baez went into the tree house in her front yard and blasted recordings by soprano opera singer Renée Fleming. —David Browne, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2025

Officers were called about 4:45 p.m. on Friday to the toddler’s home on Overbrook Drive, where they were met by an adult who carried the child to the front yard. —Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1740, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for front yard

• asgard
• backyard
• barnyard
• blackguard
• bombard
• brickyard
• canard
• churchyard
• coastguard
• courtyard
• debarred
• diehard